Wikileaks: A Silver Lining

Spilling America's confidential cables is a crime. The perpetrators should be punished severely and steps need be taken so that there will be no repeat of tons of confidential data being routed to Wikileaks or other parties who do not share America's interests or values.

Having said that, let me now say that these leaked documents have given the world a window to what's real. It has blown away a great deal of nonsense spouted by the likes of President Obama. In particular, it has put the lie to Obama's comments that the lack of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has complicated his efforts to deal with Iran.

Thanks to Wikileaks the American public now knows that Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan pray to Allah that someone will take out the Iranians. They don't care who it might be; the USA, Israel, ..... whoever. But, of course, the USA or Israel, working jointly, or separately, are probably the only ones who could pull it off. The likes and dislikes of the Palestinians are the very last thing they dwell on. That, at any rate is what we find in the honest reporting of American diplomates throughout the middle east.

It's actually not very different than when Israel took out Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor. The Arabs all booed Israel in public, but behind closed doors they were all dancing and popping champagne corks.

So why has Obama been playing the role of Hamlet, when a course of action lay so clearly before him? Who knows? I assume it's because being a community organizer was really very poor preparation for running things from the oval office.